Promises, promises
Once The Lord had taken just about as much idol-making, bribe-taking and wife-swapping as he could stomach, He told Ezekiel that unless He could find a man to “build up the wall and stand before me in the gap,” then He would lay waste to the City of Jerusalem. ;;Last Saturday, Christian conservatives decided the…
Dodo birds at $2 billion apiece
Would you buy a suit that you can’t wear in the rain? Or a car that you have to keep in the garage when the weather gets warm? How about a house that deteriorates if exposed to even moderate humidity? You’d have to be a fool to buy these flawed products. So … why are…
Nasa attacks
Next week’s cassini launch from Cape Canaveral is only the start of the nuclear assault on space. You’d think a guy with two houses in Florida would be chipper. But Horst Poehler is not. Poehler is lamenting a lost opportunity. An opportunity to matter. An opportunity, perhaps, to change the course of U.S. space policy…
Shooting from the lip
Strippers, nudists, dancing denizens of late night: David Wasserman’s clients test the limits. So does he. ;;Chugging coffee in the late afternoon between bursts into his palm-sized cell phone, the attorney still managed to rapidly recount his recent hazardous flirtation with the most powerful politician in Orlando. ;;”Glenda Hood’s jaw dropped,” says attorney David Wasserman…
Up against a Great Wall
On the weekend that the new film “Seven Years in Tibet” puts Brad Pitt’s pretty face up on screens, a protest at Kissimmee’s Splendid China theme park hopes to shine a light on the uglier side of Asian struggles. At 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12, Citizens Against Communist Chinese Propaganda will stage a demonstration…
